SharpCap Forums

Hi, were you trying to switch the light on or off? I guess so, since the 30s timeout applies to those operations. SharpCap is expecting the light to enter the correct state within 30s of the command being issued. If you are switching on, the calibrator should go to the 'Ready' state, if switching of...

Hi, interesting that the first error in the ASCOM log is 'A device attached to the system is not functioning.', followed by 'Serial port is not connected'. I suspect that the failure to talk to the arduino is happening at a fairly low level (driver? USB?) to lead to the device not functioning error....

Hi, the sensor analysis process and the data it produces is only influenced by the camera, not the telescope that you have it attached to (you can also do the analsis with a simple lens attached, or even with an open sensor). So, you only need to do the analysis once (or not at all if your camera is...

Hi Bertrand,

if possible the log and the ser file would be helpful to try to see if anything of interest in the log ties in with appearance of the problem in the SER file.

thanks,

Robin

Hi, there are lots of causes that might lead to an initial large error (polar alignment, mount alignment, cone error, etc), but hitting the problem after the plate solving correction has tried to put the target into view is less easy to work out. If you are trying to image near the celestial pole an...

Hi, yes, that's right - 'dark flats' are the dark frames matched to the flats - they are used to create a flat with the dark level background removed and not used in place of normal darks. Best to turn dark correction off when capturing flats and allow the 'dark flats' option to do its bit. cheers, ...

Hi Geoff, from the logs it looks like EQMOD is generating an error when SharpCap is asking it to turn on tracking - the underlying error looks like it is a numerical overflow (numerical value too large to be represented properly). I wonder if EQMOD has somehow got a weird tracking rate configured an...

Hi,

at least part of that would be becaue I forgot about this one, sorry

I have now tweaked the code so SharpCap will wait a short while for the focuser to report as connected - this will be in next week's update.

cheers,

Robin

Hi, thanks for the report - I think I just need to tweak the way that the buttons are enabled/disabled to allow for the 'unknown' position. The calibrator appearing in the 'NotReady' state is a bit worrying though - according to the ASCOM documentation, that state is supposed to be transient - it me...

Hi, Ok, I start to see the picture. I will have to have a think about that, but for now I can make a suggestion of another place to 'smuggle' data from the sequencer to python that might work out... In the sequencer, use a SET CONTROL step to set the value of the Notes control - ie SET CONTROL Notes...